Prize winner Alexander Gavrilov speaks to those gathered for the presentation in Berlin of the first New Europe Prize for Higher Education and Research. The other awardee, Andre Pleșu, sits in the front row (second from right) with Institute Director Phillip Griffiths two seats further down the row. The Prize was part of an initiative by a group of six scholarly institutes in Europe and the United States (including the Institute for Advanced Study) to encourage the establishment of similar institutes in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Gavrilov was a Member of the Institute's School of Historical Studies during the 1991-1992 academic year.

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